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The dig at the beginning that „white men“ got 1962 the Nobel prize for DNA instead Rosalind Franklin was cringey and factually incorrect. Frankin died in 1958 a
by ralfd 9y ago
The dig at the beginning that „white men“ got 1962 the Nobel prize for DNA instead Rosalind Franklin was cringey and factually incorrect. Frankin died in 1958 and the Nobel prize is not awarded posthumously. Had she lived she would have gotten it too, there is no question about that.
- AbrahamParangi 9y agoWhile the Nobel prize is indeed not awarded posthumously, the characterization of Rosalind Franklin being unfairly dispossessed of credit is very reasonable. Watson and Crick achieved great fame for "Discovering the double helix structure of DNA". Their original paper: 1) contained no experimental data 2) does not cite Franklin 3) was based on her as-yet unpublished X-ray crystallography
- HarryHirsch 9y agoNot sure if this was due to a clash of personalities between Wilkins and Franklin or due to gender issues. Considering that there were many women active in British crystallography (Dorothy Hodgkin, Olga Kennard, Eleanor Dodgson, Kathleen Lonsdale, to name a few) I think it really was a personality issue, and the "white men" was unnecessary, even wrong.